Lab Research Professional

Department
 

Booth CDR: Operations – White

About the Department
 

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges. Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment. Chicago Booth is proud to claim: -an unmatched faculty. -degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents. -a global body of nearly 54,000 accomplished alumni. – strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities. As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University’s core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas – the first business school to achieve this accomplishment. For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary
 

The Center for Decision Research is devoted to the study of how individuals form judgments and make decisions. Researchers at the Center examine the processes by which intuition, reasoning, and social interaction produce beliefs, judgments, and choices. The Research Professional, CDR Labs Manager primarily supports faculty members, research professionals, and PhD candidates with their research projects and provides managerial and administrative support within the CDR Labs research operations.
Lab locations:
• Mindworks: The world’s first lab and discovery center dedicated to behavioral science located in the heart of downtown Chicago’s cultural corridor. Mindworks is free and open to the public, welcoming visitors to explore interactive exhibits and take part in hands-on research experiments.
• Virtual Lab: Online research lab with participants from around the world taking experiments carried out via Qualtrics, Zoom, and other remote tools.
• Pop Up Labs: In-person experiments pop up in spaces operated by partner organizations and businesses throughout the city of Chicago, such as the Chicago Park District. The Pop Up Labs move data collection and research out of the “ivory tower” and into the spaces where people live, work, and play.
• Hyde Park Lab: In-person lab housed within the Harper Center on the University of Chicago Campus in Hyde Park, Chicago. Participants to this lab are primarily UChicago students.

Responsibilities

• Conducts faculty, student, and postdoc research with human participants.
• Serves as research project manager for studies that are conducted in the CDR Labs by CDR-affiliated faculty, graduate students, and postdocs, managing the full life-cycle of each research study from research request submission through final delivery of collected data.
• Provides consulting and feedback for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students to help optimize and troubleshoot research study materials to be conducted in the CDR Labs.
• Attends faculty lab meetings.
• Receives training on the full protocols for each research study to be conducted in the CDR Labs, and ensures other research staff are trained to carry out study protocols appropriately.
• Recruits visitors/participants to the CDR Labs. Demonstrates proficiency in providing answers to common questions that arise from prospective research participants.
• Conducts onboarding, consent, and debriefing of participants in research conducted in the CDR Labs.  Answers any participant questions that arise, and provides researcher information when additional information is requested by any participants.
• Maintains and tracks all materials, equipment, logs, and any other items required to conduct faculty research projects carried out in the CDR Labs.
• Manages and maintains datasets for faculty members’ research studies conducted in the CDR Labs using the appropriate data management platforms, and enters and codes study data as needed.
• Communicates research study management updates with faculty members and their research teams, including promptly reaching out about any issues that arise in the process of collecting data, updating the research team about ongoing progress towards study completion, and providing accounting-related details to faculty researchers.
• Maintains current training in research ethics through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program), and assists in training and overseeing the CDR Labs research assistants as they engage with participants.
• Provides managerial and administrative support to the CDR Labs.
• Assists in interviewing, hiring, training, and mentoring CDR Labs research assistants, including providing ongoing oversight of research assistant interaction with Lab visitors and data collection with study participants.
• Works as front desk staff member when required, checking in and orienting visitors to the Labs, and maintaining visitor records.
• Maintains operational records for the CDR Labs, and conducts and presents data analysis as needed from these records for quarterly meetings, to assist in understanding and improving operations.
• Attends and assists in organizing and scheduling CDR and CDR lab team meetings.
• Manages expenses using UChicago ePayment and GEMS online systems.
• Coordinates with external research partners, and assists in supporting and maintaining research partnerships as necessary.
• Assists the CDR Administrative Office on projects and events as needed.
• Contributes to management of inventory, procurement, and accounting records related to research operations.
• Maintains and promotes clear and efficient communication between research staff, faculty, and students through contributions to quarterly lab reporting and other communications.
• Designs and executes outreach and participant recruitment methods for the CDR Labs as needed. This includes creating solutions to market studies and recruit participants for the CDR Labs, analyzing the effectiveness of recruitment methods, visitor/participant engagement, events and programming in the CDR Labs.
• Demonstrates expertise in providing information to Lab visitors/participants about the field of behavioral science, nature and purpose of experimental research in behavioral science, specific nature and importance of each of the Mindworks exhibits and related concepts, and generally serves as a positive ambassador for the CDR during engagement with visitors.
• Provides prospective participants with appropriate information in order to support their interest in participating in CDR experiments.
• Assists in designing and delivering events and programming to attract visitors to the CDR Labs, and provides support for related data collection opportunities.  This includes helping to carry out events and programs to support research with children and adults from specific groups and backgrounds, as required.
• Supports outreach and advertising initiatives to attract visitors to the CDR Labs, as required.
• Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project.
• Analyzes and maintains data and/or specimens. Conducts literature reviews. Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts and other documents.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

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Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through < 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

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Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in the area of psychology, organizational behavior, or marketing.
• Master’s degree.

Experience:

• One year of experience conducting computer, web-based, and interpersonal interaction-based experiments.

Preferred Competencies

• Familiarity with methods of social science research experimentation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Collaborate and interact professionally with faculty, students, and staff.
• Good organizational skills, time management skills, and attention to detail.
• Fluency in Spanish.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)

When applying, the document(s) MUST  be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.

Job Family
 

Research

Role Impact
 

Individual Contributor

FLSA Status
 

Exempt

Pay Frequency
 

Monthly

Scheduled Weekly Hours
 

37.5

Benefits Eligible
 

Yes

Requires Compliance with University Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement
 

Yes

Drug Test Required
 

No

Health Screen Required
 

No

Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
 

No

Posting Statement
 

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